Author Archives: Frank Ruscica
U.S. Dept. of Education: “21st century learning… [is] personalized learning.”
On March 5, 2010, the U.S. Dept. of Education released a draft (.pdf) of the executive summary of their 2010 National Educational Technology Plan.
An excerpt:
The model of 21st century learning described in this plan…leverages the power of technology to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size-fits-all curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices.
It’s not complicated… [...]
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Teacher survey from Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Over 90% of teachers agree that customization is “essential.”
The just-released survey (.pdf) is (sub-)titled: Primary Sources — America’s Teachers on America’s Schools. 40K public-school teachers were surveyed.
An excerpt:
To keep today’s students engaged in learning, teachers recognize that it is essential for instruction to be tailored to individual students’ skills and interests. More than 90% of teachers say that differentiated assignments are [...]
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Forthcoming book: Workforce of One — Revolutionizing Talent Management Through Customization.
Workforce of One, a Harvard Business Press book, is scheduled to be in stores in early May, 2010.
An excerpt (from an advance copy):
You might have trouble imagining how employees could set their own salaries with no organizationally imposed limits. But that’s exactly what people do in the U.S. Navy. The navy has an online job-auction [...]
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Customized M.B.A.? Stanford is for you.
From Rethinking the MBA [sic], a forthcoming 2010 book:
In Fall 2007, the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) adopted a new curriculum…The curriculum was the school’s most far-reaching change in thirty years , emphasizing customization…
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OurFuture.org on Michigan’s successful No Worker Left Behind (NWLB) initiative
From a January 28, 2010 report (.pdf):
In 2007, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm launched the No Worker Left Behind (NWLB) Initiative, which provides up to $10,000 over two years for any unemployed or underemployed worker seeking education or training that leads to a high-growth job in the state. In its first eighteen months of the program [...]
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NY Times: “Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early.”
Standardized education is beating a hasty retreat.
From the February 17, 2010 edition of the New York Times:
Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college.
…The new system of [...]
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Catalyze the Creation of Many Jobs in the U.S.? End the Reign of America’s Kleptobankers? The Fledgling Customized-Education Industry is the Best Bet to Do Both, Findings of Top Researchers Indicate.
(This article adapts a two-part series I wrote for popular blog Zero Hedge. An excerpt from this entry has been noted approvingly by Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi. Thanks kindly for any feedback.)
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Lots of great “Ideas for Change in America” are on display at Change.org
I was just surfing around the site. Lots of smart, inspiring submissions…
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UK Prime Minister: “Education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time.”
From the February 11, 2010 edition of The Guardian newspaper:
[British PM Gordon] Brown also said he wanted to build up Britain’s universities. “There are 1,000 universities being built in India and we want to be part of this educational export. I think that education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time,” he [...]
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My submission to the U.S. Dept. of Ed.’s new OpenEducation site
The site: “How should we collaborate with…businesses?”
My submission (with supporting info): Advocate for ‘jobs stimulus’ that subsidizes consumers and producers of customized education, and operators of associated online markets.
Predictable?
You can comment and/or vote at the site.
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A guest post of mine on popular blog Zero Hedge
Part one of a two- or three-part series. Written in the ZH style…
To learn about Zero Hedge, see this feature story from the September 27, 2009 issue of New York magazine.
UPDATE (2/15/10): Part two is online at ZH.
UPDATE (2/26/10): ZH is one of “Ten Wall Street Blogs You Need to Bookmark Now,” according [...]
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Merciful reviewers
A Google employee blogs:
A fantastic post about disrupting education.
Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi “calls out” a comment I left on his blog. The comment excerpts from this blog entry of mine.
From After the Frat, a blog:
A brilliant idea by Frank Ruscica about how to finally get out of this economic quagmire.
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Obama education adviser: “21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.”
From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond:
21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.
…Also key is the creation of networks that allow teachers, leaders, schools [...]
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